Word: capitalistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Yemen and El Salvador, Iceland and New Zealand, some 260 delegates journeyed to do homage to an organization that has power to subpoena none. They represented a total of 1.5 billion people. There, in the flesh, were black men, brown men and white, Communist and capitalist, Moslem and Confucian, atheist and Christian, vegetarian and carnivore. All told, 38 foreign ministers are gathered in San Francisco, among them the Big Four: Britain's Harold MacmilIan, France's Antoine Pinay, Russia's Vyacheslav Molotov and the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles. More than anything the assembled delegates...
...friendly and admiring audience. Appropriately enough, it was Heavyweight Paul Anderson who made the biggest hit. The 22-year-old titan from Toccoa. Ga. looked for all the world like a living caricature of Humphrey Pennyworth, the comic-strip strongman. Here in the flesh was the giant of a capitalist fairy tale. Almost as wide as he is high (5 ft. 10 in., 340 Ibs.), Anderson toyed with the big bar bells and set two world records in the process. "We rarely have such weights lifted," said the solemn Russian announcer as Anderson hoisted 402.41 Ibs. in the two-hand...
Standard Oil's founder, a good capitalist and good Baptist who took the long-range values for granted, might be somewhat puzzled by all the skyhook talk. John D. Rockefeller Sr. had put the matter more simply when he wrote: I was early taught to work as well as play...
...began the American Federation of Labor were imbued with a doctrine of class warfare that rings tinnily in the preamble to its constitution: "A struggle is going on in all the nations of the civilized world between the oppressors and the oppressed of all countries, a struggle between the capitalist and the laborer, which grows in intensity from year to year...
Instead of echoing the Marxist manifesto, the new preamble proclaims allegiance to "our way of life and the fundamental freedoms which are the basis of our democratic society." The words "struggle." "oppressed." "capitalist" and "laborer" are not even mentioned in the document...